On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John Gabriele
wrote: The only inconsistency, I think, is that operating systems like Debian refer to their software distributions as "packages" (as in, a packaged up piece of software that you can download and install). "Packages" is a great name for them -- too bad it's already being used in Python.
I believe that's basically where the confusion comes from.
Whoops. Just noticed that the front page of the PyPI says:
"There are currently 8614 packages here."
(is that 8614 packages or 8614 distributions?) and,
"To submit a package use "python setup.py upload" and to use a package from this index either "pip install package" or download, unpack and "python setup.py install" it."
and
"# Browse the tree of packages # Submit package information"
---John